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Troubleshooting

No sound

Make sure you have the package alsa-plugins-pulse-32bit installed. If you don't use PulseAudio or experience problems with it start Steam with the following export:

SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa steam

S3TC not found

S3TC is not enabled by default in FLOSS drivers because of patent issues. Try starting steam with this terminal command as a workaround:

force_s3tc_enable=true steam

Alternatively you can use driconf to activate S3TC with a graphical user interface.

Video problems

If you see GL errors in the terminal or video glitches in-game then your video drivers might be outdated. You need Mesa version > 9 and openSUSE 12.2 currently ships 8.0.4 by default. Add this repository and do a vendor change for all packages. You need to switch the repository in YaST software management (or do zypper dup --from "X11:XOrg") to achieve this. Do not commit to the upgrade if it wants to remove either fbdev or vesa drivers. A newport driver is removed with the upgrade, and that is fine.